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What is Hawthorne's eminent literary reputation—"enduring" or "hypertrophied"? Both views are represented in this basic collection of seminal 19th-...

Clinton Machann challenges recent popular approaches to the Victorian autobiography that treat the genre ahistorically or as a subgenre of fiction....

To succeed in law, business, education, government, health care, and many other fields, it is becoming increasingly important to distinguish yourse...

“Once you find the right structure, perhaps it will be easier to find the right content.” That’s one of the key insights from this fourth book in t...

Completing Assignments in TESOL and Applied Linguistics: A Practical Guide is an invaluable companion for anyone dealing with assignments in these ...

In this follow-up to the celebrated Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram, and Candy Caskill have produced the most comprehens...

Among the many collections of Egyptian proverbs, the standout is this compilation by Ahmad Taymour, a pioneer and leading figure in the field of pa...

The Story of Willow Run is a success story—the life history of a small community, the "Bomber City" that had sprung up in World War II. It tells wh...

This volume collects outstanding papers in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences that have been organized by the Michigan Academy of Scienc...

Cultural China is a unique annual publication for up-to-date, informed and accessible commentary about Chinese and Sinophone languages, cultural pr...

The course book covers the legal translation themes by the types of legal documents. The three parts of the book are devoted to the translation of ...

For almost a century critics of George Bernard Shaw's dramatic works have accepted the characterization of Shaw as an artist and thinker well ahead...

Russia in the 1840s seethed with intellectual radicalism. The reactionary government of Alexander I and of his successor, Nicholas I ,had dispelled...

This Companion addresses the contemporary transformation of critical and cultural theory, with special emphasis on the way debates in the field hav...

Jane Austen's English is far different from Virginia Woolf's, but historians of the English language have given scant attention to the ways in whic...

This book addresses the challenges often encountered by English-medium instruction (EMI) teachers when teaching content subject knowledge in Englis...

Contestation in Civil Society looks at the dynamic relationship between noise, listening and civil action as the key to understanding how societies...

The book provides a systematic investigation of the dynamic trajectories in the oral language development of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) le...

French Grammar in Context presents a unique and exciting approach to learning grammar and this revised sixth edition includes new chapters on langu...

"When Slim Turned Sideways . . ."—this is narrative suspense, and if well done propels the reader on into and through a novel, or folktale, or prin...

The uniqueness and importance of Humanism in Crisis arises from the way in which a significant historical event—the end of the French Renaissance—i...

This reference guide intends to help the students of social and behavioral science to cope with the key concepts which are often used for evaluatin...

Completing Assignments in TESOL and Applied Linguistics: A Practical Guide is an invaluable companion for anyone dealing with assignments in these ...

In this book, Peirce’s logical apparatus is used to explain some topics in biology where traditional scientific methods fail to establish the relat...

The essays in Writing between the Lines explore the lives of twelve of Canada's most eminent anglophone literary translators, and delve into how t...

Charts the long history of resentment, from its emergence to its establishment as the word of the moment.   The term “resentment,” often casually p...

The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation offers a detailed overview of the field of Persian literature in translation, discusses the ...

Real English-speaking people don’t speak like your textbook… so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLea...

Dialectología hispánica aplicada: variación, enseñanza, interdisciplinariedad es un libro de referencia tanto para el estudio como para la investig...

First published in 1982, Languages of South Asia covers all important languages and language groups of the so-called Indian subcontinent (India, Ba...

The Chaghatay language was used across Central Asia from the 1400s through the 1950s. Chroniclers, clerks, and poets in modern-day Afghanistan, Xin...